Pushback

 A repost from the fall: The culture of pushback by kids in American schools can pollute the integrity of our instruction. CI is easy to undermine – all the kid has to do is fade out or try to start a side conversation to create a problem, since ours is a community-based approach in which every

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And The Objective Is….

Robert got the restricted rule on a comment to “Don’t Tread on Us”. In that article, Kate received, I suppose, a well meaning email after an observation in which the administrator told her: …the objective is for students to vocalize that vocabulary…. I’m sorry, I know it’s the Christmas Season and all, but that guy

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Five Stages of R and D

It’s just so very easy, if you don’t like the nervousness of stories, to teach from a novel using the Read and Discuss Technique. If you are feeling the stress of stories, read on: I suggest five stages in R and D: Stage 1 – translate a paragraph with the kids. This is straight CHORAL translation. Never

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E.T. Phone Home

The following comment from Lynn, written in January, appears again here as a blog post because it is a great reminder about discipline. Now at the beginning of the year we absolutely need to remember to do exactly what she says below. No amount of skills at doing TPRS/CI can overcome the need to do

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A Lawsuit

MB sent this link, along with the question: What is to become of US – public school teachers if this student wins this case? http://news.yahoo.com/lehigh-university-student-got-c-now-seeks-1-124956605.html

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